Background: SOA Research
Agenda
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Current and Future Reality
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm is having a
significant impact on software development
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Standardization efforts are progressing
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Variety of tools are becoming available to support SOA-based
development
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Academic and industrial researchers are working on a range of
relevant problems to increase and ease adoption
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Problem
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Current efforts evolve in many directions, without a central
compass
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Vendors often frame the SOA discourse—with their own
agendas
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No clear, commonly agreed upon, overarching themes to focus
research activity
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Danger that important research needs will be overlooked, while
other efforts will focus on issues of peripheral long-term
significance in practice
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SEI Independent Research and Development
Project
Goals
• Assemble an international research group to analyze the current
state of the practice and current research initiatives in SOA
• Propose a long-term consensus research agenda
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Approach
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Broadened the scope of the research agenda to show that we are
interested in more than just SOA as an architectural style
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Performed an extensive literature review and looked at case studies of
successful SOA adoption
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Created a service-oriented system development lifecycle that supports
the strategic approach to SOA adoption shown in case studies
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Identified areas of SOA research necessary to fill in the gaps
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Validated end evolved finding through multiple workshops and
interviews
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Context for Workshop
Previous work
• Reviewed several hundred research papers
• Organized 7 workshops with research community
• Validated taxonomy of research issues
Today’s workshop:
• Co-sponsored by IBM, CMU School of Computer
Science, SEI
• Unique mix of practitioner and research community
• Identify hard problems from user perspective
• Identify needed research
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Research Challenges Report Outline
Executive Summary
Introduction
SOC Basics
SOC Research Framework
Research Topics
Next Steps
Conclusions
Glossary
Workshops
Extended Bibliography
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Next Steps
Next Steps
• Make presentations and working session outputs available
• Technical Report of workshop summary
• Present summary findings to ICSE 2008 workshop (May, 2008)
• Use as impetus for potential SOA research consortium
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